More About Car Safety Seats

More About Car Safety Seats.
Nearly three-quarters of American parents locate their children in forward-facing buggy seats before it's safe to do so, a new turn over reveals. Guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend that a rear-facing wheels seat be used until a child is at least 2 years old or has outgrown the weight/height focus of the seat. For the study, University of Michigan researchers compared findings from surveys of American parents conducted about one month after the AAP guidelines were issued in 2011, and again in 2013.

The head investigation found that 33 percent of parents of children aged 1 to 4 years had started using forward-facing passenger car seats when their child was 1-year-old or younger, and only 16 percent waited until age 2 or older to use a forward-facing seat. In the 2013 survey, 24 percent of parents said they turned the domicile around before their child's firstly birthday, and 23 percent waited until age 2 or older to use a forward-facing seat, the investigators found.